Birmingham Public Schools, 2023-24 and 2024-25
Behavior & Discipline Data
The data on this page comes from official state sources and internal district records provided in response to a FOIA request filed by PAACT on April 1, 2026. All figures are as reported. No data has been altered.
About this page
Where this data comes from
- Michigan CEPI
- SID School Safety Reports
- BPS Internal Discipline Log
- School years 2023-24 and 2024-25
Section 1
Bullying incidents: district totals
SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25
Change from one year to the next
Michigan statewide bullying incidents declined 16% from SY 2023-24 to SY 2024-25. BPS moved in the opposite direction.
Source: SID School Safety Output, SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25. The 2024-25 figures were rechecked against the state file in October 2026.
Section 2
Bullying incidents by school
Building-level data, SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25
Source: SID School Safety Output, SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25. The 2024-25 figures were rechecked against the state file in October 2026.
Section 3
Seclusion and restraint: students with disabilities
SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25
−60%
−63%
Students without disabilities secluded or restrained: 0 in 2023-24 and 0 in 2024-25.
Note: Figures below 10 are reported by the state as "<10" to protect student privacy. Source: CEPI60 Seclusion & Restraint Report. The 2024-25 figures were rechecked against the state file in October 2026.
Section 4
Expulsions
SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25
BPS does not appear in Michigan state expulsion data for either school year.
Source: CEPI-23 Expulsion Data, SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25. Both files were rechecked in October 2026.
Section 5, new data
Internal discipline log: all incident records
529 individual entries, September 2023 through October 2025
Incident entries by consequence type, all schools combined
Total entries and suspension entries by school
Suspension entries include all lengths (1-day through 10-day short-term), based on logged consequence codes D08-D13.
School-by-school breakdown
| School | Total entries | Suspensions | Detentions | Conferences | Other / no consequence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derby Middle School | 180 | 99 | 53 | 16 | 12 |
| Berkshire Middle School | 126 | 65 | 43 | 4 | 14 |
| Wylie E. Groves High School | 50 | 17 | 22 | 3 | 8 |
| Quarton Elementary | 41 | 11 | 0 | 29 | 1 |
| Ernest W. Seaholm High School | 25 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| Pembroke Elementary | 23 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
| Pierce Elementary | 22 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Birmingham Covington School | 21 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Greenfield Elementary | 15 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| Beverly Elementary | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Harlan Elementary | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Bingham Farms Elementary | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Maple Elementary | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| District total | 529 | 234 | 138 | 80 | 77 |
Suspensions include all entries with consequence codes D08 (1-day) through D13 (10-day short-term). Conferences include administrative conferences (D02) and student/parent/administrative conferences (D05). "Other / no consequence" includes pending investigations (D16), debarments (D01), behavior intervention plans (D06), one "double or nothing" entry (D03), and the 57 entries with a blank consequence column. Two entries listed no school; they are excluded from the school-level table but included in district totals. Source: BPS internal discipline log, provided via FOIA. Every count in this section was recounted from the log in October 2026.
Section 6
Data sources
All data on this page is drawn from official Michigan state reporting systems or BPS internal records.
| Source | Data type | Years covered |
|---|---|---|
| SID School Safety Output | Bullying incidents, violent crime victims, by school | SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25 |
| CEPI60 Seclusion & Restraint Report | Seclusion and restraint incidents, students with disabilities | SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25 |
| CEPI-23 Expulsion Data | Student expulsions | SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25 |
| MiSchoolData.org | Statewide bullying totals for context | SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25 |
| BPS Internal Discipline Log | Individual incident records with consequence codes, provided via FOIA | September 2023 through October 2025 |
Section 7
What PAACT sees in this data
The following is PAACT's interpretation of the numbers above. It reflects our perspective as a parent coalition, not an official district position.
BPS and the state are moving in different directions
Bullying incidents across Michigan dropped 16% last year. In Birmingham they rose 36%. We don't think that difference is something to scroll past. Whatever is driving it, it seems worth understanding.
What the data shows, and what we know from families
At least one school in this district reported zero bullying incidents in 2023-24. PAACT is aware of families from that same school whose experiences during that same year, documented in writing, in police reports, and in their children's medical records, don't appear to be captured in that number. We're not drawing conclusions about why. We're noting that the gap exists.
A 60% drop in seclusions in one year
In 2023-24, 112 seclusion incidents were recorded for students with disabilities in BPS. The following year that number dropped to 45. We hope that reflects better outcomes for those kids. It may. We just don't know what changed, and that information isn't publicly available.
No formal expulsions in either year
BPS does not appear in state expulsion data for 2023-24 or 2024-25. That may reflect a thoughtful, intervention-first approach to serious misconduct, and restorative practices, done well, are valuable. We raise it only because several families have shared with us that serious, repeated incidents at their schools resulted in no visible consequence. Those two things can both be true at once, and we think it's worth sitting with.
529 incidents in the internal log, most at two schools
The internal discipline log the district provided contains 529 incident records across 13 schools. Derby Middle School and Berkshire Middle School together account for 306 of them. That's 58% of all logged incidents from two of the district's three middle schools. Derby alone had 99 entries that resulted in a suspension of some length. We share this not to alarm, but because parents whose children attend those schools deserve to know what the numbers look like.
Talk to us
If something on this page connects with your family's experience, we'd like to hear from you.
Reach out at paact.birmingham@gmail.com or visit paact-birmingham.com. We don't share family stories publicly without explicit permission.